Impressive Losses to Boot

By Logan Finnell on April 15, 2013 2:10 AM

Hey there tennis fans!

"I wish I could understand women. . ." -Coach Jamie Sanchez

That
was the line that Coach Jamie said that stuck out and made our team laugh in
our meeting on Monday when he went into telling one of his 'stories.' Gotta
love those... After his 38th year coaching the women's tennis team
here at LMU, you can say that Jamie has been predominantly surrounded by women
his whole life. I have to give him major credit for that. The amount of
nonsense that he has to put up with on the daily is beyond me! This sort of
goes back to his notion about not understanding women, because in all honesty, no
one does! But hey, he can't say that we don't provide him with endless amount
of entertainment. We keep him youthful as he gets to stay hip with all the
current college lingo, gossip and music and whatever other silly things us
girls talk about.

This
is the third week in a row where we've maintained a spot in the rankings. Down
to No. 71 this week! We are getting closer and closer to the end of the season
and that means the big conference tournament! We had a crazy match-filled week
this week.

On Wednesday, we played CSU
Fullerton in a non-conference match where we posted a solid 5-2 score. Friday,
we traveled to San Diego where we played 2012 defending conference champs, the USD
Toreros. We barely lost 3-4 in by far one of our closest matches thus far this
season. Every court, each girl was fought with such tenacity and heart. We
really came together as a team for this match in that when certain match
situations didn't go our way, other situations worked out as each of us had
each others backs the whole way through. I am so incredibly proud of the
efforts that we showed out there and I have no doubt that the next time we face
them, that the outcome will be in our favor. Prior to the match, Jamie told all
of us that at this point in the season, "We have to be ourselves." There is no
other person or player that we need to strive to be or play like. We must play
with the game and embrace the talent that we do possess because the best we can
play is at our personal best. And this certainly applies to every day life
situations as well.

Following our match in San Diego, we
came right back to school to travel again the next day and this time to St.
Mary's in Moraga on Saturday morning for a Sunday match. We fell just short
with another 3-4 score. Have it be another day where we face them, we can beat
them. That score is too close not to think it could have gone the other way. So
next time, if we do in fact play St. Mary's we'll be prepared for the win to go
our way, much like our logic with the USD match.

This
Wednesday, we play our biggest rival, Pepperdine at our final home match and
then off to Utah for BYU on Saturday for our last conference match. The season
is quickly coming to a close. We would really love all the support we can get.
That being said, please please please come out to watch your fierce Lions
against Pepperdine at 1:30. I promise you, it will be one match you will not
want to miss!